Movie: Scrooge (1951)
- Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
- Release Date: 31 October 1951 (UK)
- Writers: Charles Dickens (story) Noel Langley (adaptation)
- Run Time: 86 min | Germany:74 min (video version)
- Country: UK , USA
- Genre: Fantasy , Drama
Tagline: Now! The story that has brought joy to millions! A new screen triumph!
Trivia: The word "humbug" is misunderstood by many people, which is a pity since the word provides a key insight into Scrooge's hatred of Christmas. The word "humbug" describes deceitful efforts to fool people by pretending to a fake loftiness or false sincerity. So when Scrooge calls Christmas a humbug, he is claiming that people only pretend to charity and kindness in an scoundrel effort to delude him, each other, and themselves. In Scrooge's eyes, he is the one man honest enough to admit that no one really cares about anyone else, so for him, every wish for a Merry Christmas is one more deceitful effort to fool him and take advantage of him. This is a man who has turned to profit because he honestly believes everyone else will someday betray him or abandon him the moment he trusts them.
Goofs: Anachronisms: When Scrooge gives his housekeeper a Christmas Bonus and increases her wages to ten shillings a week, she runs down the stairs exclaiming in joy "Bob's your uncle!" No one would have ever used that term during the time the story takes place, in 1843. The phrase is used to describe British Prime Minister Robert Cecil's appointment of his unqualified nephew, Arthur Balfour, as the Chief Secretary of Ireland, in 1887. Dickens' characters would have to wait another 44 years to use the phrase which describes good fortune out of nothing, or the exclamation of happiness from simplicity.
"Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic. Written by Jerry Milani <jmilani@ix.netcom.com>"
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I sorta enjoyed some of the personalities acted in Scrooge